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Born and raised in Emilia Romagna (Italy), with Apennines in view and the Adriatic sea at a stone’s throw, I studied at the University of Bologna, where I graduated summa cum laude in Lettere Moderne. Then I earned a doctorate in Comparative Literature and Translation from the University of Siena. Currently, I am completing a doctoral dissertation in Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Trecento Variations on the Epic Tradition:Dante’s “Commedia”, Boccaccio’s “Teseida”, and Petrarch’s “Africa”).In addition to scholarly books and articles, my research output includes projects that go beyond the formats of standard academic writing. I particularly cherish working in such fields as translation and Digital Humanities, where practice goes hand in hand with theory. With the project Mapping Dante I created the first digital interactive map of the geographical references in Dante’s Commedia.

I taught courses at the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and the University of Pennsylvania. A 2016 survey ranked me 16th out of 1,730 instructors of any rank and discipline teaching at Penn between 2009 and 2015.